A group of Wales football fans are hoping to inspire their team to success at the Euro 16 finals in France with a medley of songs.

The idea for the recording of two songs - All The Way and Hogia Ni - at the Sain Studio in Caernarfon came from Wales fan Ywain Myfyr, a singer with Dolgellau-based folk group Gwerinos, and one of the organisers of the Sesiwn Fawr festival in the town.

Ywain, a former headteacher at Ysgol y Traeth, Barmouth, now working with Welsh teaching union UCAC, has followed Wales all over Europe.

He said: “The original idea came when Wales were playing Israel in Haifa last March and I was there with my son. We had both gone out there being quite confident that we would go through to the Euro finals.

Gwerinos and Yws Gwynedd in the studio

“The song Hogia Ni is one we recorded with Gwerinos for the Sesiwn Fawr and we’ve written new words with the hope that they will be popular.

“We’ve written two versions - one in Welsh and the other in English.”

Joining Ywain and Gwerinos is Ywain ‘Yws’ Gwynedd, from Bethel, Caernarfon, formerly frontman with Frizbee and until recently a midfielder with Caernarfon Town FC.

Ywain is also a TV presenter and contributor to Radio Cymru football programme Ar y Marc.

Ywain Myfyr said: “We will also have a brass section, courtesy of Seindorf Arian Deiniolen.”

All proceeds from downloading or buying the songs will go towards Gôl, the charity set up by Wales supporters who always take toys and kit to orphanages when they play away in different countries.

Yws Gwynedd records a song for Euro 2016

Wales fans are known for their passionate singing including the national anthem Hen Wlad fy Nhadau as well as Andy Williams’ classic, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Tom Jones’ Delilah and Kernkraft 400 by German group Zombie Nation as well as renditions of Men of Harlech.

Ywain said: “Hogia Ni is usually a song that people sing when they’ve had too much to drink.”

However Gwerinos’ banjo player and Daily Post Herald Cymraeg editor, Tudur Huws Jones, believed the original lyrics came from WWI soldier Huw Lewis Owen, from Anglesey, who penned it to say that the parade ground or square wasn’t “big enough” to hold all the Welsh soldiers ready to take up arms.

Ywain Myfyr said: “The idea is that we will be adding two more songs to the mix.”

Ywain said he hopes Welsh fans everywhere will be able to download the Welsh and English versions of the song through Sain and possibly iTunes and Spotify.

There could even be a CD of songs appearing between now and the start of the tournament, he said.

Joining Ywain and Gwerinos is Ywain ‘Yws’ Gwynedd, from Bethel, Caernarfon, formerly frontman with Frizbee and until recently a midfielder with Caernarfon Town FC. Ywain said: “It will be good to have all the fans knowing the same songs and singing from the same songsheet, so to say.”